Hey, folks!
I'm in the lucky situation of just having gotten TS1 Complete Collection from the mail and I'm excited to install it. I'm using instructions found here to install the game, recommended here , and they should work for Win 7 too (which I use) so yeah, everything should go well.

Except that I have one question. In these instructions it's said that I should install the game using the Set-Up interaction (?) found in the Star-Up of Win 7 instead of using auto install which is fine, I understand all of that. But when using Set-Up I need to choose the language for the game etc which leaves me a little confused because as a Complete Collection user I don't have 1 disc to install, I have 4. So does this mean that I should, when the game is installing and requests for Disc 2 for example, go to the Set-Up and choose the language/etc manually with each of the 4 discs in order for it all to install correctly?

Sorry if this is something that's really obvious, I'm not that brilliant with computers, hence why I'm here asking you
Thanks for reading!

Once the set-up is started, you'll get prompts for the next action to take. I've never had a program that had to be told more than once what language to use - later disks will take their cue from the first one. But if there's a problem, you should get a prompt.

Thanks for taking the time to reply

The thing is that since my computer isn't compatible with TS1 I'm not using the standard auto-install method but a tweaked one, that which I linked in the post above. And when using this tweaked method I'm supposed to close the auto-install pop-ups and instead go to the Windows start-up panel and choose 'set-up', then language etc from there. I'm also supposed to change the location from Program Files x86 to "regular" Program Files so it's not quite the same as normal installation of the game which is why I wanted to ask if anyone had experience on this and could clarify All else is clear for me except whether or not I should use that same start-up --> set-up --> set language/etc with each disc of Complete Collection or how exactly I should do this.

But again, thanks for commenting, I really appreciate that you're trying to help me


Edit: I have everything working now, game runs smoothly

Yeah! So glad for you! Thanks for taking the time to post all of that. Others may wonder the same thing and now we'll all have something to point to.

Definitely gonna give this all a go tomorrow. Thanks!!

Just to clarify, I installed my game as "admin", my computer is a hybrid (uses Win 7 but doesn't have all the things - it was made to play The Sims 3 originally) and I didn't have this set-up option which you probably have. Everything else is the same - I installed to Program Files instead of Program Files x86 etc. I also start the game by finding the Maxis folder and then running it as admin. Custom content works, too.
No errors other than that the game has crashed twice when I was using hyper speed (?) for a longer period of time. But since doing that isn't necessary I wouldn't call it a big problem